drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio

There are also the old standby close up lenses that attach to the front of a lens. They have usually 3 types in a kit and they are sort of like using a pair of readers in front of a lens . A kit consists of 3 close up lens adapters +1,+2,+3. You need to buy them for the lens thread you want to use them on. I have a set of 58mm threaded ones I used on the old Canon F1 35mm film that I used to have They work on my Nikons now. I just adapt the them to the lens threads by the use of adapters. The lens focuses auto with them attached but the auto focus will hunt if you are not either close enough or far enough too be in focus. I have stacked all of the close up adapters together to get really close up. I have a macro lens and they help getting closer than the macro normally allows.

Neilhunt

This camera, like most with long zooms, sacrifices close focus with tele-zoom (as you zoom in, the close-focus shifts further out).
Usually, the largest image is achieved with the lens as wide as possible and the camera at the close-focus distance that matches.